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Essential facts about the blast, burn, and radiation effects of nuclear weapons; the devastation they wreak upon the environment; and the inability of physicians to reach and treat the surviving victims of nuclear war.

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IPPNW's Peace House

Since IPPNW’s founding in 1980, our head office has needed to move six times to find suitable, reasonably-priced rental space in the Boston area. Frequent relocation is expensive and disruptive. And those lease payments never stop – IPPNW could have purchased two to three properties outright by now.
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Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro for peaceJune 28-29: International peace advocates convened in Moshi, Tanzania to raise awareness on the effects of uranium mining and nuclear weapons. June 30-July 4, 17 doctors, medical students, and other antinuclear activists climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and valiantly raised the IPPNW banner at the top of the world's tallest free-standing mountain. Watch a video from their climb here.

Letter to the New York Times
June 11: "In contrast, by the close of the United Nations conference on the treaty last month, 107 of the world’s nations had responded to this profound threat to human survival by endorsing the 'humanitarian pledge' recently issued by the Austrian government to work for the speedy elimination and prohibition of nuclear weapons."

Doctors and Parliamentarians Dialogue on Small Arms Crisis
IPPNW leaders brought a public health perspective on armed violence to policy makers at two seminars in India and Peru organized by the Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons, convened to discuss the Arms Trade Treaty and the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms.

Nuclear weapons abolition - a medical imperative
Dr. Sue Wareham in the Medical Journal of Australia: "Medical and humanitarian professionals have already played a crucial role in advocating for the removal of the global nuclear weapons threat. The emergence now of a strong majority of the world's governments committed to the same goal represents unprecedented progress and opportunity. Medical voices are needed now as much as ever, to seize the opportunity while it lasts, and to help delegitimise and stigmatise these horrific devices."